Cover image courtesy SpaceX.
Featured Articles:
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ISDC 2012 Looking into the Promised Land
By Clifford R. McMurray
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MILESTONES TO SPACE SETTLEMENT: AN NSS ROADMAP
Introduction and Outline of the complete online Roadmap
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THE TYRANNY OF THE ROCKET EQUATION
By Atronaut Don Pettit (written aboard the International Space Station)
26
DRAGON SOARS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
By Douglas Messier
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IS A MOON BASE IN OUR FUTURE?
By Gordon Woodcock
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X-37B: THE AIR FORCE’S NEW SPACE PLANE
By David Kane
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NSS RECOGNIZES STUDENT SPACE SETTLEMENT DESIGN WINNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
By Lynne F. Zielinski
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2012 NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY AWARDS
Honorees at the 2012 NSS International Space Development Conference
By John K. Strickland
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KSI AND NSS BRING SPACE TO THE CAROLINA COAST
By Walt Putnam
Departments:
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LETTER FROM HEADQUARTERS
Onward, Upward…On the Shoulders of Giants
By Paul Damphousse
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LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Pat Silver
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2012 NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY AWARDS CEREMONY
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HERITAGE PANEL REFLECTS ON THE PAST AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
By Ariel I. Rayman
46
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
We Are Winning!
By Mark Hopkins
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NSS CORRESPONDENCE
Space Experience Economy Seminars
By John Spencer
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BOOKS
Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet’s Twin, by Michael D. Lemonick
Reviewed by Charlene Brusso
At Home In Space: The Late Seventies into the Eighties, by Ben Evans
Reviewed by Stephen Adamczyk
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CHAPTER LISTINGS
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SIGNING OFF
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